Remove user-data-dir usage in tests on mv3 builds #24696
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Description
"The user data directory contains profile data such as history, bookmarks, and cookies, as well as other per-installation local state."
We are using the
user-data-dir
command and unnecessarily caching such data in thetest-artefacts/
directory. With local testing, and seemingly with test run as part of the same job on CI, it can be seen that this cached data has persistence between test runs, and can thereby cause flakiness. Locally, it seems that old builds of the extension can be cached. On CI, it seems that things like our fetch cache can be persisted between browser sessions.I do not believe this is actually used for any purpose, and we can reduce flakiness by removing it.
Manual testing steps
all e2e tests should pass
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